Obama's Pastor Jeremiah Wright: "U.S. a Racist Superpower", More Video

ABC News as more snippets...... it gets worse. Go here.

Other sermons reviewed by ABC News, from videotapes sold by the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, reflect Rev. Wright's repeated attacks on the U.S. government as a "racist and arrogant superpower" that does not value its black citizens.

In one sermon in October 2005, Rev. Wright addressed the racial elements at play in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Is Obama's Pastor a Liability?

"The winds of Katrina blew the cover off America. The hurricane exposed the hypocrisy," Rev. Wright said, "protecting white folks' property took priority over saving black folks' lives." He continued, "This storm called Katrina says far more about a racist government than it does about the wrath of God."

In April 2003, Rev. Wright told his congregation that "the United States government has failed the vast majority of our citizens of African descent."

"For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got five million blacks who are out of work," he said. "For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you've got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condoskeeza [sic] Rice, you've got one million in prison. For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap-blazing hips, playing on a course that discriminates against women. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course."

More From Obama's Pastor: U.S. a Racist Superpower

Comments

[pythagoras]

In Mr. Jeremiah Wrong, ehr, Wright we see a classic example of Pot versus Kettle disease.

No stranger to racism himself, Wrong's real problem is that HIS brand of racism hasn't been getting the results he's been hoping for.

Evidently, this has now become all of our problem.

[Timur]

Are there any black Americans who honestly believe that they aren't better off in the United States than they would be if their ancestors had stayed in Africa? Look at the lack of health care, basic services, no welfare, spread of malaria, HIV/AIDS, and everything else and tell me that they would be better off in Darfur or Kenya or Tanzania? I don't think one of them would be willing to go and live in Africa, and certainly not the good reverend Wright. He would never be able to fleece a congregation there for the kind of money he has made off of his church members here. Has Wright's church even done anything to help people in Africa? Or is he just interested in lining his own pockets?

[Adam Stanhope]

Like it or not, Katrina *did* reveal a great deal about race in America. It was a shameful episode and it was important because it opened up so many eyes.

Katrina demonstrated that the poor and black in and around New Orleans live in squalor that most of us were shocked to find still exists in the United States.

[NormanF]

If America was a racist country, Jeremiah Wright wouldn't be allowed to damn it and Barack Obama wouldn't even be in contention as a presidential aspirant. Things have changed in this country in the past half century. Bigots like Wright can't look past their hate to see how beautiful America is and to praise the decency of its people.

[Timur]

"For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course."
Not true. I'm sure Tiger might let some of them caddy for him.

[Timur]

Isn't it odd that the same groups that were criticizing John McCain when John Hagee endorsed him and said similar things about how Katrina was G-d's wrath against New Orleans as "Sin City" and having so much sexual depravity and so many shops devoted to voodoo and witchcraft are defensive about Obama's pastor Wright and his statements? I guess once you go Barack you don't dare go back...

[duncan]

Hey Timur, the fact of the matter is the U.S. does have a shameful history of slavery and racism. So to that extent Wright was on the money.
Hagee on the other hand is delusional. He claims to understand the ways of God. He claims that we must promote armegeddon in the Middle East in order to bring about the 2nd coming of Christ. The man needs a psych eval not a presidential candidate courting him for support.

[pythagoras]

Duncan:

Over 600,000 Americans gave their lives in the Civil War putting an end to slavery in their country.

Of course we know that you are hoping no one will notice that slavery and the slave trade have now made a return to global affairs now labeled "human trafficking" in the late twentieth century courtesy of corrupt, racist third world world and islamic nations (like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Iran.... but NOT America) and tacitly endorsed by the likes of you and Mr. "Wrong is" Wright).

So now you come along and spit on these heroic Americans' graves while ignoring the REAL racism going on in the world and which more often than not involved America. If anyone looks bigoted and shameful in light of all this it would be you.

[geo11]

Obama can not get away from his very close association with his very anti-American, white hating friend and preacher. Bambi spent twenty years studying and being mentored by Revrum Wright. The scary part of all this for non blacks is that this freak of a preacher has such a large following. The whites are all to blame for black problems is racist and false. People need to take responsibility and stop blaming others. Obama would be a very bad choice for our nation if he becomes POTUS.